17-02-2013, 01:28 PM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Peter Lemkin Wrote:Can't find it now, but somewhere here on the Forum I put a quote by Sunstein in his chapter in a book fleshing out his cognitive dissonance theories and their necessity to stop 'conspiracy theorists' from harming the USA. In the very paper he made the startling statement that [paraphrasing, until I find the quote]: "of course we only desire to stop false conspiracy theories, not real ones!". Who gets to decide....I guess in the Sunstein mind, the men behind the curtain do. Theirs, that blame scapegoats, are good. Those that blame them, or their beloved system, are bad.
Yup.
A corrupt and filthy food chain - just visit an abattoir - driving down the price offered farmers to ensure maximum profits for multinational corporations, the real "conspiracy", is an inconvenient truth.
Better to blame the arms dealer Viktor Bout and those dirty Romanians running an "international criminal conspiracy" - a very convenient lie.
A "conspiracy theory" that Sunstein & his ilk can approve of.
Found Sunstein's exact quote, which is: "Our focus throughout is on false conspiracy theories, not true ones."
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
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